A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations - Brossura

Leichter, Howard M.

 
9780521296014: A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations

Sinossi

This book provides a framework for explaining why governments adopt the policies they do.

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Descrizione del libro

This book provides a framework for explaining why governments adopt the policies they do. It is suggested that any nation's public policies can be explained in terms of situational, structural, environmental and cultural factors.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. Comparative policy analysis; 1. Introduction; 2. The origins and evolution of the positive state; 3. Accounting for public policy; 4. Comparing policy priorities; Part III. National health care policy in four nations; 5. Germany: the pioneer in national health care; 6. Great Britain: health care in a modern welfare state; 7. The Soviet Union: health care in a communist state; 8. Japan: health care in an Asian nation; 9. Summary and implications for health care policy in the United States; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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9780521226486: A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521226481 ISBN 13:  9780521226486
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1979
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